Dover Postponed

[jackal2]

Parmenter and Cleeve, I’d put both in the same bucket of not giving anything they say any credit at all. I’d like to hear Burch’s view on whether the pitch was playable and whether the ref got it right or wrong. For me this totally looks like Dover are at fault for not getting an earlier pitch inspection and Parmenter is just trying to deflect the blame.

I tend to agree, but like I said earlier, don't absolve the officials and league of blame either. Apparently the referee arrived at 12.45pm, but why wasn't a pitch inspection conducted much earlier today, given the known weather situation and the distance away fans were travelling?
I can remember various instances of past games in the Football League where a local referee was dispatched to the ground either early in the morning or even the previous day to inspect the pitch and save everybody a wasted journey if it was that bad.

Yes of course it's possible that the pitch was genuinely playable at 8am and the heavy rain from 11.30am changed that, but I suspect Dover have winged it in their desperation to get the game on, and nobody from the National League visited the ground early enough to make their own judgement and protect the interests and pockets of travelling fans.

As a previous poster suggested - at best it's a bunch of bungling amateurs, at worst it's a deliberate disregard for travelling supporters.